Re: Phaistos Disk side B

From: Rolleston (rolleston_at_onetel.net.uk)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:55:59 +0000

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:33:02 -0500, Angantyr wrote:
[...]
> Additionally, I decided to check the libraries of my native region (I live
> in a Russian-language environment now and the chance of finding Faucounau
> here is virtually zero, so I made a not-too-arbitrary choice of the region
> where I was born). There are eleven universities for a population of
> several millions. A single copy of Faucounau's book "Les peuples de la mer
> et leur histoire" was available in three of the eleven universities. A
> single copy of his book "Le de?chiffrement du disque de Phaistos : preuves
> et conse?quences" was available in only two of the the universities (two of
> the same universities carrying the other book). I think that speaks
> volumes J in and of itself. Overall, the interest in Phaistos is
> extremely low and that of Faucounau's book is only a fraction thereof.

This really is a lamentable situation. Has JF considered following the
example of one of Newton's editors by including pictures of naked
ladies in his estimable book? If one happened to get caught reading
"Le dechiffrement..." in the library, that inclusion lessen somewhat
the embarrassment.

R.

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